Time is flying these last days, can't believe it's Sunday again already! So again the blog is all yours, use this open Sunday thread to talk about anything you like, or propose subjects for discussion later in the week.
- posted by Tobold Stoutfoot @ 6:30 AM Permanent Link
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hi, I am an avid reader of your blog. I am also a WoW fan - and have one toon at 70.

Yes, I guess the hot topic for today will be the universal failure from GOA that everyone predicted and expected. I was there for DAoC from beta so I was in the "I'm sure they've learned their lesson" camp, but in the back of my mind I really had doubts. They gave away so many keys, let alone their SE and CE sales, how they could possibly have expected that to go smoothly on the day the OB was suppose to start is anyones guess.

Shame, I think GOA will go into live without a scrap of good will in the bank, any problems will see them drawn and quartered.

If they had given dates, their schedule or told the community weeks ago they had problems the community would have rallied (as we are strange like that.

Their arrogance, insistence all is well, on schedule just did not hold. Even the client which we got after 3 days of complaining and they were running out of exscuses why they could not give to us was in the end a link to the US servers, I am guessing the people in the US, with servers and a client would be Mythic - I cannot think that GOA planned that all along else they could have given the link in 10 seconds to us after PW weekend in the US and we would have had the client easily.

I read a quick overview of the Archlord MMO the other day. I haven't had the time yet to download the client and play around with it, but I was wondering if you had. My apologies if you've covered this before, I don't remember the topic.

Based on the overview I read it sounded like it had some interesting aspects to it. First of all, it's free and appears to make money primarily off micro-transactions for upgraded armor, etc.

The other interesting aspect is the major PvP. Each server has only one Archlord at a time and it takes a concerted effort and what sounds like epic battle to unseat the sitting Archlord.

Anyway - sounds interesting and thought I'd save myself some time downloading and installing if you've already played it and hated it.